Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...host his own network show (TIME, July 15), potential sponsors have kept a sharp eye trained on both the show and its popularity polls. But even top nationwide ratings and a glittering line-up of guest stars (Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald, and in a rare upcoming live appearance, Bing Crosby) have failed to get him a national-sponsor nibble. Last week the makers of Rheingold Beer persuaded NBC to let them sponsor Cole in the East only-where Rheingold is marketed. "The fact that Cole is a Negro is of no importance to us," said a Rheingold spokesman. "His show...
...seven seasons as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, elegant, acerbic Rudolf Bing has taken some sharply critical looks at culture in the U.S., has cast an occasional wistful eye at the old-world advantages-including fat government subsidies-of European opera houses. Despite the fact that, artistically speaking, there are really no big managerial plums after the Met (Milan's La Scala is not likely to hire a non-Italian boss), gossip that Vienna-born Manager Bing was about to leave has persistently cropped up. Last week the Met's directors announced that Bing has been signed...
...contract, longest in the Met's history, will keep Bing in New York (at a "substantially improved" salary) through the spring of 1962, and perhaps 1964. will allow him to lead the Met from its old house into the promised land of Manhattan's huge new Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne...
...American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor Co.'s new Edsel, Crooners Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra will team up for the first time on TV. And Producer John Houseman's new Omnibus-type show, The Seven Lively Arts, will kick off in November with Perelman's treatment of The Changing Ways of Love over the past 30 years. Arts will...
Hollywood long ago discovered that priests and nuns were box office. Protestants were tossed a few films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine...